Transference for amenable actions

Suppose acts amenably on a measure space with quasi-invariant -finite measure . Let be an isometric representation of on and a finite Radon measure on . We show that the operator has -operator norm not exceeding the -operator norm of the convolution operator defined by . We shall also prove an analogous result for the maximal function associated to a countable family of Radon measures .

     

A general functional equation and its stability

Suppose that and are vector spaces over or and are scalar such that whenever We prove that if for and

then each is a ``generalized' polynomial map of ``degree' at most

In case and we show that if some is bounded on a set of positive inner Lebesgue measure, then it is a genuine polynomial function.

Our main aim is to establish the stability of (in the sense of Ulam) in case is a Banach space.

We also solve a distributional analogue of and prove a mean value theorem concerning harmonic functions in two real variables.

     

Weak properties of weighted convolution algebras

Suppose that is a weighted convolution algebra on with the weight normalized so that the corresponding space of measures is the dual space of the space of continuous functions. Suppose that is a continuous nonzero homomorphism, where is also a convolution algebra. If is norm dense in , we show that is (relatively) weak dense in , and we identify the norm closure of with the convergence set for a particular semigroup. When is weak continuous it is enough for to be weak dense in . We also give sufficient conditions and characterizations of weak continuity of . In addition, we show that, for all nonzero in , the sequence converges weak to 0. When is regulated, converges to 0 in norm.

     

Tensor products of -weakly closed nest algebra submodules

In this paper we prove that for any unital -weakly closed algebra which is -weakly generated by finite-rank operators in , every -weakly closed -submodule has . In the case of nest algebras, if are nests, we obtain the following -fold tensor product formula:

where each is the -weakly closed Alg -submodule determined by an order homomorphism from into itself.

     

Holes in the spectrum of functions generating affine systems

Given a expansive dilation matrix , a measurable set is called a -dilation generator of if is tiled (modulo null sets) by the collection . Our main goal in this paper is to prove certain results relating the support of the Fourier transform of functions generating a wavelet or orthonormal affine system associated with the dilation to an arbitrary set which is a -dilation generator of .

     

Essential numerical range of elementary operators

Let and denote two -tuples of operators with and Let denote the elementary operators defined on the Hilbert-Schmidt class by We show that

Here is the essential numerical range, is the joint numerical range and is the joint essential numerical range.

     

On the excess of sets of complex exponentials

For let be complex numbers such that is bounded. For define , where . Then the excesses in the sense of Paley and Wiener satisfy .

     

On two problems of Erdos and Hechler: New methods in singular madness

For an infinite cardinal , denotes the set of all cardinalities of nontrivial maximal almost disjoint families over .

Erdos and Hechler proved in 1973 the consistency of for a singular cardinal and asked if it was ever possible for a singular that , and also whether for every singular cardinal .

We introduce a new method for controlling for a singular and, among other new results about the structure of for singular , settle both problems affirmatively.

     

Boundedness of admissible area function on nonisotropic Lipschitz space

Let be the unit ball in , let be the unit sphere, and let be the admissible area function. In this paper, we show that if , then and there exists a constant such that .

     

Multiplicative bijections of

Let be a compact Hausdorff space which satisfies the first axiom of countability, let and let , be the set of all continuous functions from to If , ,is a bijective multiplicative map, then there exist a homeomorphism and a continuous map such that for all and for all

     

Gradient ranges of bumps on the plane

For a -smooth bump function we show that the gradient range is the closure of its interior, provided that admits a modulus of continuity satisfying as . The result is a consequence of a more general result about gradient ranges of bump functions of the same degree of smoothness. For such bump functions we show that for open sets , either the intersection is empty or its topological dimension is at least two. The proof relies on a new Morse-Sard type result where the smoothness hypothesis is independent of the dimension of the space.

     

Remarks concerning linear characters of reflection groups

Let be a finite group generated by unitary reflections in a Hermitian space , and let be a root of unity. Let be a subspace of , maximal with respect to the property of being a -eigenspace of an element of , and let be the parabolic subgroup of elements fixing pointwise. If is any linear character of , we give a condition for the restriction of to to be trivial in terms of the invariant theory of , and give a formula for the polynomial , where is the dimension of the -eigenspace of . Applications include criteria for regularity, and new connections between the invariant theory and the structure of .

     

-function of an operator: A white noise approach

Let be the canonical framework of white noise analysis over the Gel'fand triple and be the space of continuous linear operators from to . Let be a self-adjoint operator in with spectral representation . In this paper, it is proved that under appropriate conditions upon , there exists a unique linear mapping such that for each . The mapping is then naturally used to define as , where is the Dirac -function. Finally, properties of the mapping are investigated and several results are obtained.

     

Lightface -indescribable cardinals

-absoluteness for forcing means that for any forcing , . `` inaccessible to reals' means that for any real , . To measure the exact consistency strength of `` -absoluteness for forcing and is inaccessible to reals', we introduce a weak version of a weakly compact cardinal, namely, a (lightface) -indescribable cardinal; has this property exactly if it is inaccessible and .

     

Perturbing a product of stable flows

Suppose that and are axiom A flows with attractors and . Then the attractor for the product flow on the product manifold is no longer hyperbolic (although there is a hyperbolic action of ).

It is easy to see that the attractor cannot explode but we show here that it cannot implode: for any flow sufficiently close to any attractor whose basin is not too thin is -dense in .

     

The vanishing of implies that is regular

Let be an excellent local ring of positive prime characteristic. We show that if , then is regular. This improves a result of Schoutens, in which the additional hypothesis that was an isolated singularity was required for the proof.

     

Bounds for the index of the centre in capable groups

A group is called capable if it is isomorphic to for some group . Let be a capable group. I. M. Isaacs (2001) showed that if is finite, then the index of the centre is bounded above by some function of . We show that if , then with some constant and this bound is essentially best possible. We complete a result of Isaacs, showing that if is a cyclic group, then .

     

Pseudocompact spaces and -spaces

Let be a completely regular Hausdorff space, and let be the space of continuous real-valued functions on endowed with the compact-open topology. We find various equivalent conditions for to be a -space, resolving an old question of Jarchow and consolidating work by Jarchow, Mazon, McCoy and Todd. Included are analytic characterizations of pseudocompactness and an example that shows that, for , Grothendieck's -spaces do not coincide with Jarchow's -spaces. Any such example necessarily answers a thirty-year-old question on weak barrelledness properties for , our original motivation.

     

The Banach algebra generated by a contraction

Let be a contraction on a Banach space and the Banach algebra generated by . Let be the unitary spectrum (i.e., the intersection of with the unit circle) of . We prove the following theorem of Katznelson-Tzafriri type: If is at most countable, then the Gelfand transform of vanishes on if and only if

     

Associated primes of local cohomology modules

Let be an ideal of a commutative Noetherian ring and a finitely generated -module. Let be a natural integer. It is shown that there is a finite subset of , such that is contained in union with the union of the sets , where and . As an immediate consequence, we deduce that the first non- -cofinite local cohomology module of with respect to has only finitely many associated prime ideals.